Literature Review - Rough Draft

Briana Lanza Kyle

T. Thomas

Composition II

22 March 2013

Helping the Students Who Need It

“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!" this came from the senator David Vitter. Education is like a pencil, an ironic statement I know but if you think about it pencils are the best example of how you grow over time throughout school. Each year of your education you are sharpened just a little so that you could be better in the next grade, the lead being your brain growing in sharpness. The tool that is used to help these children learn is the teachers, parents and administrators around them. But just like every pencil is not the same every child is not either so you may need more than one sharpener to achieve a useable point. For some children these extra devices that are needed are hard to be found in schools.

In many schools they have special education classes which isolate the children from the rest of their peers to be taught in a different way but does this really help the child develop good learning and personal skills as a student. Many of these children need to attend occupational therapy to help “sharpen” their intelligence so that they could be able to interact with the other students in their grades and even those older.  Throughout their lives they need to pursue and interact with others but with isolation this is a problem within schools. So the question is how to we prepare all of the people involved with education for life after high school? Not only do these impairments affect the disabled students it affects the students around them, the parents of these students, and the teachers in elementary schools.

Disabled Student and Their Peers

As a child school and meeting new people are the most essential elements of your life because in these moments you learn things about life that you did not once know, even if now it seems like mediocre things like learning how to spell your name or read and write these things affect you for the rest of your life. Although all of these things are important you will quickly realize the people you are around mean a lot to your learning. The people in your classes, the people you sit with at lunch can either make your experience at school a good or a bad one, but everyone deserves the chance to have the freedom to interact with their peers and enjoy school. In school you quickly learn that not everyone is the same as you, looks like you, talks like you or even learns the same way that you do and this is where we run into a problem. Many disabled students’ placed in special education classes are treated differently as they reach higher up in the schooling system. This causes a lot of destruction for making friendships outside the classroom.

Students with learning disabilities are often “pulled out” of class for the benefit of them but in the end ultimately results in an opposite affect (Will 411). This does not help the children’s learning and also affect the way that the children interact with others. On the other hand, the separate classroom idea creates the ability to build bonds with people who may have problems similar to them leaving them not to feel alone. Often children do not understand at a young age why there are some students who have to be taken out of class or only seen at lunch but as they get older it becomes harder to overcome the scrutiny of being a student in a special education class. Without this understanding it is hard for children to interact with each other. Many peers find it to be something that they know certain students have to do but do not understand why it has to be done or even that the student is not very different from them outside of the classroom. If this is done at an early age, in conjunction with testing for learning disabilities at a young age so help can be given then instead of later on when it may be more difficult for the student to learn what is needed for further life progression.

They try their best in school to try and be the most effective with both their learning and their teaching. They also need to focus on the interaction and cohesion as people but later in life connections and the people you know could get you somewhere and give you the opportunity to succeed.

Teachers

One of the people who have the most important and difficult job in this situation is the teacher that has to work with the child outside of when they are with occupational therapist.

Parents

Occupational Therapist

Working Thesis & Introduction

"I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!" this came from the senator David Vitter. So just like the main tool used in school, your pencil will be used but first with the use of a device you can sharpen this pencil for the ability of use to keep on working. This is like children, when first arriving at schools most children know some of what they need to know but this is when they really begin to “sharpen” their intelligence. The tool that is used to help these children learn is the teachers, parents and administrators around them. But just like every pencil is not the same every child is not either so you may need more than one sharpener to achieve a useable point. For some children these extra devices that are needed are hard to be found in schools.

In many schools they have special education classes which isolate the children from the rest of their peers to be taught in a different way but does this really help the child develop good learning and personal skills as a student. Throughout their lives they need to pursue and interact with others but with isolation this is a problem within schools. So the question is how to we prepare all of the children in school for life after high school? 

Essay 3: Literature Review , Topic

The topic that I will be discussing is the influence of occupational therapist of children with learning disabilities and how it is essential for their learning and their transition to regular classes and then to the regular world. Occupational therapist help those develop skills that they will need in normal life in the world. Not only do they help those in wheelchairs with disabilities but people who are not in that situation yet still have motor and everyday life issues. These life skills could start with holding a pencil to learning how to tie your shoe and even hold a fork, all of these being important to both the people and society. Occupational therapist help people both develop then refine this skills so that they could be used in their life as if they had knew it forever. This type of transition is important in the world because often those with disabilities are beyond due to the help that they may not be receiving to obtain these skills. Not only does this affect them later on in life but it affects them now in school, knowing that school and the students are ruthless with teasing. Personally my brother had to deal with a lot of things in school due to the fact that he had a learning disability and struggled to be at the same motor levels as other children in his class. Occupational therapist within his school helped him transition to now being in normal classes and doing ju jitsu.

                Knowing that my brother had struggled so much and this helped him I was curious how many other kids are affected like this and how does it affect those that do not get this chance. Developmentally this is something that could help a lot of children with both learning disabilities and illnesses that affect their brain. In this issue there are 4 stake holders, the student, the school, the occupational therapist and the teacher. While doing research I found that there are hundreds of stories, most of them are of struggle which makes me question why. The children deserve a right to have a fair chance in life and the education system.